Mountpleasant

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountpleasant, from 1,486 m² to 133,664 m² (13.37 ha, 33.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Mountpleasant in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mountpleasant.

Recorded monuments

• MA100-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Roughly circular area (41m N-S; 36m E-W), enclosed by substantial earthen bank (H 1m), with external fosse (D 0.5m) W to N. Gap in bank to NE (Wth 2.2m). Possible souterrain (MA100-014001-) in S. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 197. Date of upload: 23 January 2013

• MA100-014001 Souterrain
  Description

  In S of ringfort (MA100-014----). Stone-lined depression (L 7.2m; Wth 1.9m) may be a collapsed souterrain. Inaccessible at the time of survey. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 548. Date of upload: 23 January 2013

• MA100-014002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA100-157 Cist
  Description

  In rough pasture, with lake to W. Long cist (L 1.3m; Wth 0.7m; D 0.6m) built of stone slabs backed up by dry-stone walling, covered by capstone, 0.2m below ground surface. Contained extended skeleton of adult male, head resting on flagstone. Flint scraper and some animal bones recovered (NMI). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 23. Date of upload: 21 February 2013

Architectural heritage

• Mount Pleasant, walled garden, 1800–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden, extant 1838, with creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown coping. Now disused. Set in unkempt grounds originally shared with Mount Pleasant.

• Mount Pleasant, gate lodge, 1800–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay (three-bay deep) single-storey pedimented gate lodge, extant 1838. Now disused. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof with clay ridge tiles centred on cut-limestone chimney stack having stringcourse below capping, lichen-covered cut-limestone coping to gable forming open bed pediment, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on limewashed rendered eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered limestone ashlar wall to front (south) elevation; limewashed rendered surface finish (remainder). Set in unkempt grounds.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, low (inferred). Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountpleasant.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Mountpleasant with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Mountpleasant · Lios Ualtair de Búrca

Area

802,494 m² (80.25 ha, 198.3 acres)

Civil parish

Touaghty, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Roslee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

443 people lived in 154 households in the Roslee electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Burren, Knockatotaun, Lisrobert, Parks, Weatherfort

Placenames

Mountpleasant on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.